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Consequences |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 272 pages | ISBN 9780670038565 | 31 May 2007 | Viking Adult | 18 - AND UP |
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The Booker Prize-winning author’s first novel since The Photograph is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves
A chance meeting in St. James’s Park begins young Lorna and Matt’s intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together—Matt’s woodcarving, Lorna’s self-discovery, their new baby, Molly—is shattered with the arrival of World War II. In 1960s London, Molly happens upon a forgotten newspaper—a seemingly small moment that leads to her first job and, eventually, a pregnancy by a wealthy man who wants to marry her but whom she does not love. Thirty years later, Ruth, who has always considered her existence a peculiar accident, questions her own marriage and begins a journey that takes her back to 1941—and a redefinition of herself and of love.
Told in Lively’s incomparable prose, Consequences is a powerful story of growth, death, and rebirth and a study of the previous century—its major and minor events, its shaping of public consciousness, and its changing of lives.
“ Joyous . . . At its center shimmers the idea of . . . the continuity of humankind as embodied in one family, shattered and reconstituted, fragile, stubborn, endearing.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“ A bold, lovely book.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“ An often beautiful novel of astute observations.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
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